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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 6 STAT. · April 11, 1818 · Chapter LIII

Chapter LIII. for the relief of John Rodgers

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Chap. LIII.— An Act for the relief of John Rodgers. April 11, 1818. *Be it enacted, &c., * That the proper accounting officers of the treasuryAccounts to be settled. settle the account of John Rodgers, for expenses actually incurred in the defence of a suit brought against him by John Donnell, of Baltimore, owner of the schooner Eleanor, and finally reversed in the Superior Court of the United States, and pay him the sum of sixteen hundred and ninety-five dollars seventy-nine cents.
Sec. 2. Appropriation. *And be it further enacted, *That the sum of sixteen hundred and ninety-five dollars seventy-nine cents be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the payment of said Rodgers. Approved, April 11, 1818.
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